Eiffel Tower facts and comparisons
The Eiffel Tower’s familiar outline conceals a highly specific industrial-scale structure: an iron tower designed for the 1889 Paris Exposition.
Eiffel Tower size comparisons
The Eiffel Tower now reaches 330 metres with its antennas.
Its original tower height was 300 metres, while the current 1,083-foot figure reflects the later antenna equipment at the top.
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Its structure is made from 18,038 metallic parts.
The number makes the tower less like one giant beam and more like a precisely assembled kit of iron components.
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The complete tower weighs about 10,100 tonnes.
That mass belongs to its whole iron structure, which is deliberately open rather than a solid, filled-in tower.
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Around 300 workers assembled it for the 1889 Exposition Universelle.
The tower was built as a fair landmark at a time when a 300-metre iron structure was a major engineering statement.
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Much of its construction depended on prefabrication.
About 12,000 pieces were prepared in Eiffel’s workshops before assembly, helping the project move quickly without treating the tower as improvised on site.
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Its load-bearing material is puddle iron, not modern structural steel.
That material detail matters when comparing the Eiffel Tower with newer skyscrapers and towers.
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